Chapter 11: Conflict Theory

Question 1

What does the conflict perspective assume?

Answer 1

That societies are more divided by conflict than they are integrated by consensus

Question 2

Conflict theories questions the assumption that…

Answer 2

Laws represent the interests of society as a whole

Question 3

Cultural conflict theory

Answer 3

Crime occurs when individuals acting on the conduct norms of their own group are in violation of the conduct norm the dominant group has enacted into law.

Question 4

Conduct norms

Answer 4

Specific rules or norms of appropriate behaviour generally agreed upon by members of the social group to whom the behavioural norms apply.

Question 5

The more complex a society becomes, the _____ the probability of culture conflict.

Answer 5

greater

Question 6

Culture Conflict

Answer 6

A theory that attempts to explain certain types of criminal behaviour as resulting from a conflict between the conduct norms of divergent cultural groups.

Question 7

He felt that criminal law “depends on the character and interests of those groups in the population which influence legislation”.

Answer 7

Sellin

Question 8

Criminal Norms

Answer 8

Describe the “conduct norms” embodied in the criminal law that represent the values of the dominant groups.

Question 9

Group conflict theory

Answer 9

A theory that attempts to explain certain types of criminal behaviour as resulting from a conflict between the interests of divergent groups

Question 10

He focuses on crime that occurs as a result of conflict between diverse interest groups.

Answer 10

Vold

Question 11

His theory of crime explains criminality as the result of conflict between groups

Answer 11

Quinney

Question 12

Vold makes use. of group conflict theory to explain two general classes of group conflict that can result in criminal behaviour

Answer 12

1. Crime that arises as a result of minority group behaviour
2. Crime that results from direct contact between groups struggling for the control of power in the political and cultural organization of society.

Question 13

Instrumental Marxism (micro)

Answer 13

The law is hides all the individual behaviours of the rich and powerful and shed light to the behaviours of the poor

Question 14

Structural Marxism (marco)

Answer 14

The state is viewed as acting in the long-term interests of capitalism as a whole.

Question 15

Relative autonomy

Answer 15

A term used in the structural Marxist perspective to indicate that the state has certain amount of independence from the capitalist class and is therefore able to enact laws that are not in the immediate interest of the capitalist class.

Question 16

“Marxian theory of deviance”

Answer 16

argued that criminalization of much behaviours is directed towards those problem populations who are surplus to the labor market.

Question 17

he argues that juveniles form a “class” of their own because they share a common relationship to the means of production.

Answer 17

Greenberg

Question 18

Left realism

Answer 18

encompass both instrumentalist and structuralist marxist accounts of the state, law, and crime.